The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Aderno, seven cases and six deaths. A few
deatha xyere rennrtel In other tnNna.

Aderno seven cases and six deaths. A few
deaths were reported in other towns.
REV. j. II. BARTLETT, editor of the Stand
ard Bearer, the prohibition organ of New
Hampshire, and secretary OF the prohibition
state committee, was arraigned before the
police court at Concord, last week, for as
saulting q ten-year-old boy. He was fined,
and gave bonds to prosecute his appeal be-
fore the higher court.
r. M. T. HUNTER died at Founthill, Va,
last week. aged seventy-eight years. He
served several terms in congress, was speaker
in 1889, and was subsequently elected to the
senate. During the war he was confederate
secretary of state and senator, and was
member of the peace commission which met
Lincoln at Hampton Roads
THE report of Explorer Stanley's death
has been disproved by cable dispatch from
st. Paul de Loando, bringing authentic
news from Aruwimi to June %, on which
date Stanley started for Wadelai, at the
head of party of nearly 400 men, including
five Europeans This date is later than
that given as the date of Stanley's death.
SINCE the leading manufacturers of en-
velopes in this country have combined there
has been slight advance in the price of
envelopes of cheap and medium quality. or
domestic envelopes, as they are called
There is an advance of about five cents a
box in the price of envelopes in boxes OF
two hundred fifty, but the change has not
affected the price of Inequality envelopes.
IT was reported in New York that the
Missouri Pacific system had been swindled
out of 81 600 in three years, by means of
contracts for ties, and that Gould was
greatly alarmed by the discovery of these
Irregularities some time ago, and it is said
that to a succession of surprises which
greeted him in his prolonged investigationof
the matter his decline in health is partly due.
The following are the provisions of the
Trio oh ~, aat u lou loo
week: The bill allows the lord-lieutenant of
Ireland, with the advice of the privy coun-
Gil, to proclaim, at his discretion, any dis
trct of Ireland as coming within the appli-
cation of the measures; it permits the trial
of q certain class of offences without Jury,
and also the removal of any Irish offender
to any portion of the United Kingdom-to
England, for instance-for trial.
MIR. BLAINE made speech at the raising
of monument to King Alexander Ill. at
Dunfermlne last week He said at first
| thought the aspect presented by an Ameri-
can engaged in the ceremony of raising a
monument to a king seemed out OF place,
but the harm done was not so serious, con-
sidering that King Alexander lived before
| America was discovered. America, Mr..
Blaine added, sympathized with Scotland
in all the great things she had done, in both
| literature and art, for the promotion of the
welfare of the people.
|
West performance at Sells Brothers circus
at Clinton, la. George Harrington, aged
seventeen, was shot in the forehead and will
die. Mrs. W. A. Lamberton was shot in the
| left breast just above the heart, danger
ously. Wallace Phillips aged sixteen, was
shot, though not seriously, in the top of the
head One of the Indians was shot, how
badly is not known. No cause is given for
using bullets, except that cowboy got the
wrong revolver. 1t was done during the
encounter of the cowboys and Indians in
the ring.
THE severest rain-storm in many years
visited portions of New Hampshire and
Massachusetts last week. In the vicinity
of Manchester, n. H., the rainfall from
Thursday to Sunday night aggregated sever
inches. Much damage has been done t.
highways. A cloud-burst in western Massa
chusetts caused Green river to overflow
and Williams bridge at Afford, sixty-thre'
feet long and ten feet above the water, was
carried away. The water rose about tel
feet. The loss by the flood in Green Rive
Valley, N. Y, will reach 5000. One life
was lost at Great Darlington. The Fitch
burg railroad is damaged in several places